Iran: The White Revolution

Near Isfahan, surveyors were setting the final
location for a $286 million steel mill that the Russians will construct
for Iran. Other crews tramped across the desert and through mountain
passes driving stakes to mark the route for a $450 million pipeline
that will carry natural gas 800 miles north from Iran's southern
oilfields to the Russian border. At Bandar Shahpur, still others staked
out the site for a $100 million petrochemical plant, owned jointly by
Iran and the U.S.'s Allied Chemical Corp. Around the clock, workmen
were building two new ports on the Persian Gulf ($300 million), a
state-owned...